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This collection presents a breathtaking journey through diverse terrestrial biomes, reimagining the raw beauty of our planet through a synthetic lens. From the ethereal golden mists of a waking forest and the crystalline clarity of alpine rivers to the jagged, volcanic scars of primordial lands and the vibrant, sun-drenched cathedrals of coral reefs. Each environment is a study in light, texture, and atmospheric depth, blending hyper-realistic detail with a touch of the sublime. These landscapes explore the intersection of classical nature photography aesthetics and the boundless possibilities of modern generative tools, offering a contemplative look at worlds both familiar and imagined.
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Rocky planets may be able to form in harsher environments than we thought. Webb detected key building blocks of planets, including water and carbon dioxide, in a rocky planet-forming zone being hit by extreme amounts of ultraviolet radiation.
Planets are formed from disks of gas, dust and rock surrounding stars. The specific disk Webb observed, XUE 1, is near several massive stars. These stars emit high levels of ultraviolet radiation, which scientists expected would disperse gas and break apart chemical molecules.
To the team’s surprise, Webb found partially crystalline silicate dust, plus various molecules (water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen cyanide, acetylene) that can form rocky planets. It’s the first time such molecules have been detected under these extreme conditions.
Learn more: www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-study-reveals-rocky-plane...
This image: This spectrum shows data from the protoplanetary disk termed XUE 1, which is located in the star cluster Pismis 24. The inner disk around XUE 1 revealed signatures of water (highlighted here in blue), as well as acetylene (C2H2, green), hydrogen cyanide (HCN, brown), and carbon dioxide (CO2, red). As indicated, some of the emission detected was weaker than some of the predicted models, which might imply a small outer disk radius.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. Ramírez-Tannus (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), J. Olmsted (STScI)
[Image description: Graphic titled “XUE 1 Irradiated Protoplanetary Disk, MIRI Medium -Resolution Spectroscopy” shows a graph of brightness on the y-axis versus wavelength of light in microns on the x-axis. An arrow pointing down along the y-axis reads “dimmer;” arrow pointing up reads “brighter.” (There are no values or tick marks on the y-axis.) The x-axis ranges from 13.3 microns on the left to 15.5 microns on the right, labeled in even increments of 0.5 microns, starting at 13.5. A key in the upper right corner shows that model data are plotted in purple and Webb data are plotted in white. Both the model and data form jagged lines with numerous peaks and valleys. The model and data do not match perfectly, but the general trends align. Four sets of peaks are highlighted and labeled. (1) Acetylene, C 2 H 2—highlighted in green; centered around 13.7 microns. (2) Hydrogen Cyanide, H C N—brown; 14.0 microns. (3) Water, H 2 O—blue; 14.2 microns. (4) Carbon Dioxide, C O 2—bright red; 14.95 microns.]
Change in the initial species richness in 2005 relative to 2001-2005 average (high-range climate change scenario). Studies predict species invasion will be profound in the Arctic and Southern Oceans. Among others these changes could result in a significant turnover of species of more than 60% of present biodiversity. This has the potential to disrupt a range of marine ecosystem services including food provisioning.
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Cape Verde has been recognized as a global hotspot for terrestrial and marine biodiversity and United Nations in Cape Verde is actively involved in promoting environmental sustainability for the people and its' future generations of Cape Verde. On the island of Maio, two projects funded by GEF Small Grants Programme, are making the difference in shaping the minds and actions of the people.
"Marine Turtles Protection" is the first turtle conservation project in the history of the island involving the active participation of local communities and fishermen to protect Loggerhead Turtles. The project enables 17 fishermen and local people to be employed to patrol the beaches from June to October for the nesting and the hatchlings of the turtles. The local youth are also taking part in the conservation project by visiting the project sites and learning about the life cycle of the turtles and the eco-system of the island. The youth also had the opportunity to share their findings by organizing a theater performance at the municipality's festivals. Theater is relatively new to Maio and the play combined traditional story-telling techniques with an emphasis of turtle conservation andthe importance of preserving the natural environment.
This is a positive change in the increased awareness of the people where before, the hunting of turtles for their meat and eggs was common practice across the islands and egg predation by humans and other predators, had almost wiped out the breeding turtle population of the island.The project is also in alignment with Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (BSAP), a national government policy priority, which is also linked to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The project is really a local-to-global contribution.
"Revitalizing the Porto Ingles Wetlands" is also a unique cooperative project,empowering 70local women working in salt extraction. Porto Ingles Wetlandsinclude the largest «salina» in Cape Verdewith a heritage of salt extraction since the late 16th century. The entire salt production process in Maio is managed and operated by local women, and these women are proud and motivated in further improving their professional skills by actively participating in a technical exchange program to increase salt production with women from similar projects in Guinea Bissau, West Africa.The UN in Cape Verde will continue work with the Government, civil society, private sector, development partners, and families to promote sustainable development. After all, the women in Porto Ingles Wetlands have definitely illustrated that by working together and sharing experiences, they are not only helping each other to enhance the quality of life for themselves, but also are contributing to the lives of the people in Cape Verde and it's neighboring countries.
In addition,the project not only promotes sustainable traditional livelihoods of these women, it also promotes biodiversity by protecting and re-vitalizing the wetlands. The wetland attracts a wide variety of birds,including endemic species, for breeding and feeding.A protected fence is scheduled to be built to preserve and to develop this area as a natural reserve to incorporate eco-tourism as a unique bird-watching site in Cape Verde. The flocks of flamingo canalso be observed when visiting the Porto Ingles Wetlands.
Both projects, while aimed at issues related to MDG7, (Ensure Environmental Sustainability), have the added benefits of addressing poverty eradication and other MDG1 targets. The UN in Cape Verde and GEF Small Grants Programme continue to be committed to promoting sustainable livelihoods of the people by protecting the environment and utilizing the natural resources.
Article writen by Masakazu Shibata / One UN Communication Officer
Historic notes from the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Website:
Warrawee Railway Station is located on the North Shore line between Wahroonga and Turramurra railway stations.
In 1887, tenders were called for construction of a branch line extending south from Hornsby to the North Shore. The 16.8km section between Hornsby and St. Leonard’s was opened on 1 January 1890. Stations provided at the opening of the line included Chatswood and St. Leonard’s. A single line was constructed at the time. The line between St. Leonard’s and Milson’s Point (the terminus at the edge of the harbour) was completed 1 May 1893.
Present-day Warrawee Railway Station was opened on 1 August 1900, as an unattended station with two temporary timber buildings on the platform. The platform was built on the down side of the (single) line and arranged to be suitable for future adaptation for the duplication works.
The original timber buildings were demolished and a new island platform was built at Warrawee during the duplication of the North Shore between Lindfield and Hornsby and was completed in 1909. The new Down main line was laid in behind the new island platform.
By 1909, Warrawee Railway Station comprised an island platform with standard brick station building. Access to the station was via an overhead footbridge which spanned the tracks, with a set of steps leading on to the platform.
Electrification of the North Shore line was opened in 1927, with full electric services in 1928. Automatic signalling of the North Shore line soon followed, but no signal box was ever provided at Warrawee.
...isn't that romantic anymore. I forgot to download this a couple of weeks ago. About a year ago, I took a picture of sky over Los Angeles, wondering the fact that most clouds over that city were man-made:
www.flickr.com/photos/ikkoskinen/334412058/. Oh well, European big cities are not much better, as this picture shows. A good deal of clouds in Paris are from jet engines, and like in LA, they are in various degrees of degradation. Scary. We should travel less.
Ashley Jones – Bold and the Beautiful
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The key to extracting usable energy from deep coal seams and depleted oil reservoirs may lie with their tiniest residents: the microscopic organisms known as methanogenic Archaea. These small cells, measuring only 1/10,000th of an inch long, inhabit the space between mineral grains in these deep underground reservoirs and grow by converting buried organic matter to methane, the principal component of the natural gas we use to heat our homes and generate electricity. The environmental conditions which control the activity of these miniscule gas generators are poorly understood, however, limiting our ability to develop strategies that harness their energies to improve natural gas production.
A recent publication in Frontiers in Microbiology from Matthew Kirk, an assistant professor of geology at Kansas State University, and his colleagues at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte and Argonne National Laboratory, sheds new light on the role salinity plays in controlling the activity of methanogenic Archaea.
ABOVE: Assistant professor Matthew Kirk and a student from Kansas State University sample water from natural gas production wells in the Cherokee basin of southern Kansas. Photo courtesy Brianna Kwasny, Kansas State University.
Environment Minister Mary Polak assesses the cleanup efforts at Lemon Creek.
From left to right – Jennifer McGuire - Environmental Protection Division Regional Operations Branch Executive Director, Jonathan Lok - Information Officer for the Regional District of Central Kootenay and Mary Polak – Minister of Environment
Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/about-us/built-enviro...
Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/about-us/built-enviro...
Photo credit: Manuth Buth/UNDP Cambodia
In March 2020, over 330 students, women champions, government officials, NGO members and community members from around Kampot and Kep gathered in an effort to plant 3,000 mangroves and conserve Cambodia’s coastline. Shoes were abandoned on the sideline as people waded into the mud and shallows – the mission was much more important than worrying about dirty feet.
The local activity took place as part of a larger mangrove planting and marine exhibition under ActionAid Cambodia’s 100,000 Mangroves campaign, supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the project ‘Strengthening Climate Information and Early Warning Systems in Cambodia’. The campaign aims to plant 100,000 mangroves in eight community fisheries by May 2020 and raise awareness of the importance of marine ecosystems.
For more information, visit www.adaptation-undp.org/how-mangroves-mud-and-music-are-h...
Presentation by environmental activist Ross Mirkarimi hosted by DERES and the U.S. Embassy Montevideo. DERES is a non-profit business organization that promotes corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Uruguay.
San Francisco District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi introduced legislation in 2007 that prohibits large supermarkets and drugstores from providing customers with non-biodegradable plastic bags, making San Francisco the first city to regulate such bags. Since then other cities around the country and in Europe have take up similar bans.
[U.S. Embassy photo by Pablo Castro]
Children's painting/drawing project demo involving hot/cold/neutral colours and what what kinds of animals would live there.
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Members of the sampling team at the beginning of the mission.
IAEA experts visited Japan from 8 to 14 September 2014 and -- together with staff from NRA and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- collected water samples from the sea at five locations near TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station,
The water samples were shared both between the IAEA Environmental Laboratories and the Japanese Laboratories to e=be analyzed independently.
Photo Credit: NRA
1 June 2014. El Fasher: A technician from the Ministry of Environment in North Darfur inspects a massive oven used to dry during the brick production in El Fasher, North Darfur. The production of bricks in Darfur is one of the most contaminating activities and erosive for the soil.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
Preparations for transport of collected samples after completion of the mission.
IAEA experts visited Japan from 8 to 14 September 2014 and -- together with staff from NRA and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- collected water samples from the sea at five locations near TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station,
The water samples were shared both between the IAEA Environmental Laboratories and the Japanese Laboratories to e=be analyzed independently.
Photo Credit: NRA
A bitumen lorry crash 20 metre from the houses in the village of Kosso.
Horrific damage to the crop lands and rivers and streams of the village.
There will likely be no compensation or clean-up offered by local authorities.
A very sad day.
Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/about-us/built-enviro...
Premier John Horgan stepped outside to catch a glimpse of the solar eclipse. Hundreds of people gathered around the legislative lawns and the Royal BC Museum to view this once in a lifetime experience.
June 5, 2009
Dmitry Chernyshenko, Sochi 2014 President and CEO
Theodore Oben, Chief of the UNEP’s Outreach Section
© Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee
Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/about-us/built-enviro...
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Surface Model (DSM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey
5 June 2014. El Fasher: Deputy Wali (governor) of North Darfur, Mohamed Ali Amein Sufi, and the Minister of Environment, Adam Mohamed Ahmed Alnahla, visit the photo exhibition organized by UNAMID CPIS at El Fasher University, North Darfur, as part of the commemoration program for the World Environment Day.
The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the North Darfur Ministry of Environment organized, with the support of UNAMID, an event with technical lectures and awareness information for students.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID
Last week the University’s School of the Built Environment celebrated its close links with employers at a special prize-giving ceremony for students that followed Wednesday’s graduation ceremony.
www.salford.ac.uk/built-environment/about-us/built-enviro...
Deakin University is a leader in environmental and sustainability research – our multidisciplinary experts are actively working toward a better global future for generations to come. Our award-winning researchers are renowned for unpacking the complex inter-relationships between human behaviour, our economic, regulatory and planning systems and the environment. During this event our panel of experts explored questions around how and why some environmental projects succeed whilst others fail at the first post. The panel was joined by renowned Warrnambool ‘Captain of Industry’ Stephen Lucas who gave a gritty real world perspective. Bill Millard, the Director of City Growth at Warrnambool City Council, was our moderator.
Panel experts:
Associate Professor Kevin O’Toole, School of International and Political Studies, Faculty of Arts and Education
Dr Helen Scarborough, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business and Law
Dr Anne Wallis, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology
Stephen Lucas, Managing Director, Warrnambool Bus Lines and Chair, Horizon 21
Bill Millard, Director of City Growth, Warrnambool City Council (Moderator).
Just a small scene with more focus on plants and trees. This is bulid for the MMMM contest on LOWLUG. For this build I used a Magenta baseplate. Inspiration for this build came from the album cover of a Melodic Death Metal band called Black Forest with the album Dream.
A carpenter bee hovers long enough for a closeup in the backyard of a participant in the RiverSmart Homes program in Washington, D.C., on April 13, 2017. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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